[The young man lingering just outside the operating theater pauses when addressed, both hands frozen on his gun. It's a little odd for someone to assume a fourteen-year-old would be infiltrating anything with anyone, after all. The incongruity of Alvin's youth is one of the things that makes him effective as a spy, and for the strangest-looking stranger he's ever seen to cut right through that façade is disconcerting, to say the least.
But when Hongo goes dashing out, leaving Hayato behind, Alvin puts the gun away and hurries in. Recognition stirs in his otherwise hollow expression. Despite his unfortunately reduced size--what a time not to be a big, broad-backed mercenary--Alvin sets to dragging Hayato to the edge of the table and getting an arm draped over his teenage shoulders.]
C'mon, work with me, here.
[He mutters it more to himself than to Hayato, expecting no answer. Already, he's going over his mental map of the place, looking for somewhere close he and Hayato could lie low until the man's good enough to walk on his own. This isn't his first time sneaking around research facilities he definitely has no clearance to visit. There are always empty rooms no one thinks to search at first blush.]
I don't wanna get caught, and I bet neither do you.
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But when Hongo goes dashing out, leaving Hayato behind, Alvin puts the gun away and hurries in. Recognition stirs in his otherwise hollow expression. Despite his unfortunately reduced size--what a time not to be a big, broad-backed mercenary--Alvin sets to dragging Hayato to the edge of the table and getting an arm draped over his teenage shoulders.]
C'mon, work with me, here.
[He mutters it more to himself than to Hayato, expecting no answer. Already, he's going over his mental map of the place, looking for somewhere close he and Hayato could lie low until the man's good enough to walk on his own. This isn't his first time sneaking around research facilities he definitely has no clearance to visit. There are always empty rooms no one thinks to search at first blush.]
I don't wanna get caught, and I bet neither do you.